Indiana

All In the Family

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

If you’re an IPS teacher who is being let go because of budget cuts, you’re going to love this.  My Indianapolis Star counterpart Andy Gammill is reporting on his web blog that IPS is changing its nepotism policy to hire Superintendent Eugene White’s son.  

Reginald White is being hired as a coach and behavior dean at Tech High School   The younger White will report to Deputy Superintendent Willie Giles instead of to the elder White.  And Giles will report directly to the school board.  

Now I’m not Reginald White is not qualified to do the job.   What I am saying is that it doesn’t look good when on the one hand the Superintendent tells parents teachers are being fired because of a declining student population, and on the other hand, the Superintendent’s son is getting  a job.

I find it hard to believe that out of the hundreds of teachers that work for the District or the ones that were let go, IPS could not have chosen one of them for the job and avoided losing a teacher.

But then again, there are a lot of things about the IPS administration I find hard to believe.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).